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Because World War I was unnecessary, so was World War II, which was really a resumption of World War I. Buchanan goes further and argues that had Britain and France not offered a wildly imprudent guarantee to Poland in the spring of 1939, there would have been no war in the West

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    AbuAmirah2 months ago

    I don't agree with Pat. When you look at WWI, two thing strike out at you. 1) All the leaders of the major countries, with the exception of France, were related. They all had Queen Victoria as a common grandmother. 2) The German Empire was being run by a weak Kaiser who let his advisors do his thinking for him and 3) A complex set of alliances came into play. WWII on the other had had 3 megalomaniacs that decided that they were going to carve the world up between them. It just so happened that one of them was a genocidal maniac, who would've turned on the others eventually.

    WWII was the last war that America fought that really mattered, with the exception of Afghanistan

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